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Stuxnet Attacks Used 4 Windows Zero-Day Exploits
abadnog writes "The attackers behind the recent Stuxnet worm attack used four different zero-day security vulnerabilities to burrow into — and spread around — Microsoft's Windows operating system, according to a startling disclosure from Microsoft. Two of the four vulnerabilities are still unpatched. Microsoft said the attackers initially targeted the old MS08-067 vulnerability (used in the Conficker attack), a new LNK (Windows Shortcut) flaw to launch exploit code on vulnerable Windows systems and a zero-day bug in the Print Spooler Service that makes it possible for malicious code to be passed to, and then executed on, a remote machine. The malware also exploited two different elevation of privilege holes to gain complete control over the affected system."
...zero-day bug in the Print Spooler Service...
it won't affect the iPad!
Yeah, yeah, -1 Troll, -1 Flamebait, -1 Offtopic...
Who else was all ready to flame about 4 being used to mean "four"?
Then I read the rest of the summary for once...
It's funny how this happened right after Microsoft released the source code of Windows 7 to the Russian government...Just sayin...
"Hey Taco man you do realize this is recycled old news from about two month ago, don't you?"
Do you mean it's not zero-day news?